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CVE-2026-20126 — Cisco Catalyst Sd-wan Manager

CVSS v3.1 8.8 (HIGH) · EPSS 0.0% (higher than 13.8% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 5/10 · Published 2026-02-25

As of 2026-03-04, CVE-2026-20126 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Sd-wan Manager, CVSS v3.1 8.8, EPSS 0.0% (13.8th percentile). Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2026-20126, most recently “CVE-2026-20127: Critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Authentication Bypass Exploited by UAT-8616 Since 2023 (CVSS 10.0)”.

Last updated: 2026-03-04

What is CVE-2026-20126?

A vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, local attacker with low privileges to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to an insufficient user authentication mechanism in the REST API. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request to the REST API of the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system.

The record classifies CVE-2026-20126 under weakness class CWE-648. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 199 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score
8.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST)
0.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.8% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV
Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Threadlinqs priority
5/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
Published
2026-02-25, last modified 2026-03-04

Is CVE-2026-20126 being exploited?

It currently carries a trending score of 8 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

How to fix CVE-2026-20126

The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2026-20126. Vendor advisory: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwan-authbp-qwCX8D4v. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-20126

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2026-20126, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

Sources

Seeded from threadlinqs-intel and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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